I think that from now on I am going to use the phrase "sit off" as my new favourite insult. Mostly just to confuse people.

While I am not saying this is the reason, quite a lot of Twitter users jumped ship, and a fair number came to Tumblr, when Twitter's new owner took over. They thought Twitter might change and become less welcoming towards them, while Tumblr has always been welcoming to almost anyone who wants to join.

Also sometimes if I don't want to admit just how badly I screwed up, I put "#Fix 824 : fixed various issues" as opposed to "#Fix824 : fix to repair the fact I put the wrong select statement in the query in the last upgrade" because who wants to have THAT in the notes?

To be honest, I was just amused at the comment at the end, and the "Source: LITERALLY YOU!" part.

It made me smile.

Yeah -- I copied a gif and it pasted it as a PNG.

If you have any advice on copying gifs I would gladly accept it :)

I think the point being made is this :- teachers find a job. Then they teach. They produce the product (knowledge) which is given to kids and teenagers.

Kids and teenagers do not pay for this. They go to school (up to a given age) for free. And everyone seems happy with this point of view. Education is a right.

And sure -- teachers don't have a fundamental right to a teaching job, but that isn't the point. The point is kids have a fundamental right to the product the teachers make -- knowledge.

Let's go another way with this.

I don't know if you have any kids or not -- this is entirely hypothetical. But I have discovered people think more about a topic the less abstract it is.

You have two kids, aged 4 and 5. Then you get hit by an asteroid that kills you. No one else can take them in.

Wouldn't you like for the state to look after them? To at least give them food, water, shelter and care until they grow up until they are eighteen? To do all this whether they can earn their way or not? To do it just because it is the right thing to do?

Not because they believe the kids will pay them back or be worth something when they grow up, but because they believe the kids have worth now simply because they are living, sentient human beings?

Or would you rather that your kids are left out on the street to die? forced to make their own way in the world at the age of 4 and 5? that they will only be fed if they can show they have worth?

Just curious.

Merits of the request aside (because I really have no clue) how does this possibly help him?

Does he think the entire world is just going to forget he was originally convicted? That we are just going to go "Oh -- there's that guy who wasn't ever found guilty of looking at child porn and doing sex things with kids"?

Do people who are convicted of stuff then acquitted on technicalities really think that the public just forget all their past crimes because a piece of paper says "sorry -- they were prosecuted one day too late"?

YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A BOOB!!!!

(sorry -- first thing that popped into my head).

But not ending a sentence with a preposition lead to a surprising grammar joke in "Beavis and Butthead Do America" which was one of the highlights of my early twenties.

It was really something magnificent to behold :)

I admit it took me a second :)

No.

Tomorrow I am going to post one from about 15 years ago.